Caught between data protection and trade sanctions?

The rapid evolution of the economic sanctions environment constitutes a compliance challenge for multinationals and financial institutions in particular.

A significant emphasis is already placed on the use of technology for facilitating sanctions screening and filtering of listed individuals. While the technology will definitely improve sanctions compliance strategies, one might question to what extent these processing operations will be compatible with data protection rules?

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